From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10c950,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c950,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10261c,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: jsNOSPAM@abcNOSPAM.com (Jerry Sams) Subject: Re: Yet another stupid language war (was: ... the only languages you need!!) Date: 1997/11/02 Message-ID: <63gh4k$gdm$6@usenet1.interramp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 286506294 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <34566fe9.447229@news.mindspring.com> <345673af.1413708@news.mindspring.com> <3456b9f3.0@news.eznet.net> <3456e71b.3833189@news.mindspring.com> <3458D116.2D34@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> <345904DF.6BB3@easystreet.com> <01bce587$2efe61a0$8691440c@worldnet> <63bpfa$dnt$1@usenet1.interramp.com> <345A37F1.29EA@gsg.eds.com> Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 1997-11-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <345A37F1.29EA@gsg.eds.com>, nospam@gsg.eds.com says... > >Jerry Sams wrote: >> >> This is an advocacy group, my friend. > >What do you mean "this"? Of the six news groups this is posted to, only >one is an advocacy group. Either the poster is to lame brained to read a >charter or he simply doesn't care about netiquette (or both!) Whatever >the merits of Ada, B, BCPL, C, C++, etc., such crossposting of an >advocacy thread is either gross incompetence or trolling. alt.flame is >indeed a better choice. > BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE POWER OF CUT-AND-PASTE Why was the request to remove the offensive post itself posted to "comp.lang.java.advocacy" where I am. I'm not in the pascal group (nor other non-advocacy groups). Looks like the requestor is doing the same thing as the offender complained of, ie unwanted cross posting, also known as over-post-replying, or too-difficult-to-remove-extraneous-newsgroups reply-posting. Jerry